Standards this enrichment game meets for your students:
1. Cooperative learning: Fostering students’ ability to work with and appreciate others.
2. Ethical Reflection: Developing the cognitive side of character through reading and discussion. Develop moral awareness and morality through reason. Perspectives of others.
3. Students will develop social studies skills that responsible citizenship requires. Including the ability to formulate an informed, carefully reasoned position on an issue.
4. Students will apply geography to interpret the past, understand the present by relating current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions.
5. Through cooperative team learning, the students will train to respect and care about each other and each other’s opinions.
6. Students will effectively communicate in small groups supporting other members to achieve team spirit.
7. Students will enhance and better understand Science using current events questions to recall or recognize important information in the world of science.
8. GIFTED Ed: Create a learning environment for the gifted student to be challenged by current events promoting self-awareness, lifelong learning and self efficacy.
Lifelong Learning/Accelerated Social Studies Team Challenge
for SS & GIFTED January-May 2011! Teams of 2-5 Students
A summative monthly current events and geography exam.
Here’s How to Enter the NewzBrain For a Semester FREE TRIAL:
NEWZBRAIN MONTHLY GIFTED CHALLENGE
EDUCATIONAL GOALS that fit this program
Standards this enrichment game meets for your students:
1. Cooperative learning: Fostering students’ ability to work with and appreciate others.
2. Ethical Reflection: Developing the cognitive side of character through reading and discussion. Develop moral awareness and morality through reason. Perspectives of others.
3. Students will develop social studies skills that responsible citizenship requires. Including the ability to formulate an informed, carefully reasoned position on an issue.
4. Students will apply geography to interpret the past, understand the present by relating current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions.
5. Through cooperative team learning, the students will train to respect and care about each other and each other’s opinions.
6. Students will effectively communicate in small groups supporting other members to achieve team spirit.
7. Students will enhance and better understand Science using current events questions to recall or recognize important information in the world of science.
8. GIFTED Ed: Create a learning environment for the gifted student to be challenged by current events promoting self-awareness, lifelong learning and self efficacy.
Lifelong Learning/Accelerated Social Studies Team Challenge
for SS & GIFTED January-May 2011! Teams of 2-5 Students
A summative monthly current events and geography exam.
Here’s How to Enter the NewzBrain For a Semester FREE TRIAL:
*Print and read this 5-page Nitty-Gritty Brochure
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*Fill out the Page 5 entry form and FAX to 402-944-7301. Please code
Your FREE ENTRY by writing “54546565” in the upper right. Be sure to mark
your grade levels you want to participate in.